Andy Hopper elected FRS

2005 IBM ThinkPad Challenge

Each year the winning Part IB Group Project Team is invited to
participate in the IBM ThinkPad Challenge at Hursley. In 2005,
Cambridge has become the first university, among the 18 that compete,
to win the Thinkpad Challenge twice.

Andy Hopper receives IEE Mountbatten Medal

Prof Andy
Hopper was the recipient of the IEE Mountbatten Medal 2004, for his work
in the computer industry and in helping the development of UK computer
companies.

Keir Fraser wins BCS/CPHC Distinguished
Dissertation Award

Dr Keir Fraser was
awarded one of the two 2004 British
Computer Society/Council of
Professors and Heads of Computing Distinguished Dissertation
Awards for his PhD dissertation "Practical Lock-Freedom", supervised
by Dr Ian Pratt. A second
Computer Lab dissertation, "Reconfigurable wavelengths-switched
optical networks for the internet core" by Dr Tim Granger, was one of
the seven shortlisted for the award. Tim was supervised by Prof. Ian
Leslie.

Andy Hopper receives ACM
SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award

Prof Andy Hopper was
given the SIGMOBILE
Outstanding Contribution Award in Philadelphia on 28 September
2004 for pioneering new areas of research in wireless and mobile
computing, driven by a unique blend of innovative academic research
and recognition of its commercial potential.

Robin Milner receives Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Gold Medal

Professor Robin Milner was
awarded a Royal Gold Medal for outstanding achievement at a ceremony
held in The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on 2 September 2004. The
medal was awarded for his "outstanding contributions to software
engineering which have changed the face of modern computer science."

Martin Richards receives IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award

Martin Richards has been
awarded one of the IEEE Computer Society's 2003 Computer Pioneer
Awards for pioneering system software portability through the
programming language BCPL, widely influential and used in academia and
industry for a variety of prominent system software applications.

BCPL is a
simple typeless language that was designed in 1966. It was the
precursor to Ken Thomson's B, and the two gave rise to C.

David Wheeler made Fellow of the Computer History Museum

In October 2003, Prof David Wheeler was made a Fellow of the Computer
History Museum for his invention of the closed subroutine, his
architectural contributions to the ILLIAC, the Cambridge Ring, and
computer testing.

2003 SET Awards

James Murphy (Jesus College) received the IEE Award for Best
Information Technology Student at the national Science, Engineering
and Technology Student of the Year Awards in September 2003. This is the third year, running, that a Cambridge student has received the SET award for best IT or CS student.

James' Part II project, the subject of his nomination, was on
modelling smoke for computer graphics. This involved solving the
equations governing fluid motion (Euler, Navier-Stokes, mass
conservation equations) in a stable way to simulate the motion of the
smoke, in order to create physically plausible smoke. The solution
method was based on a finite grid (Eulerian) discretization and
solving the system of sparse linear equations thus produced required
the implementation of several numerical methods. He was supervised by
Dr Neil Dodgson who says: "James' project was a challenging piece of
work; the award is well deserved."

2003 IBM ThinkPad Challenge

Each year the winning Part IB Group Project Team is invited to
participate in the IBM ThinkPad Challenge at Hursley. In 2003, the
Cambridge team were the outright winners of the ThinkPad
Challenge. The final of the contest was held at Hursley on 26
September 2003 with teams from 18 of the best UK Universities battling
against each other to win an IBM ThinkPad for each member of the team.

2002 SET Awards

Tim Hospedales of Jesus College received the MISYS Award for the
Best Computer or Computer Software Student at the national Science,
Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Awards in September
2002. The SET awards are judged based on students' final year
projects. Tim's Part II Project was on eye-movement tracking.

2001 SET Awards

Hanna Wallach (Newnham College) received the MISYS Award for the
Best Computer or Computer Software Student for her project "Visual
Representation of Computer Aided Design Constraints".